This prompted me to propose my own list, entitled 25 things I do not want to know about you. Feel free to send this one to all of your random facebook buddies:

25 Things I do not want to know about you:

1. anything about your sex life
2. the regularity of your bowel movements
3. the totally adorable thing you did when you were 3
4. your illnesses, especially…
5. …any illness which occurs between your belly button and your knee, and especially any illness that derives from…
6. …the topic I don’t want to know anything about in point 1 of this list
7. the cute thing your cat just did
8. point number 2 as regards your cat
9. your vomit stories
10. your vomit stories related to the topic I don’t want to know anything about in point 1 of this list
11. the most embarrassing thing you have ever done (actually, that one might be interesting, depends what it is)
12. your dreams
13. your star sign
14. your religion
15. your political beliefs, especially if you are a Pisces religious fantastic who dreams about point 2 or point 9 on this list
16. the stuffed animal (s) you sleep with (unless it is Hello Kitty of course)
17. where you need to shave
18. where you don’t
19. the number of calories you consumed today
20. the number of calories I consumed today
21. how much you resemble Xena – Warrior Princess, especially if you are a guy
22. how God appeared to you in a dream one night and told you to lead the French Army with a really dodgy hair cut
23. everything you have done since I vaguely knew you when you were 5
24. a litany of all the shit things that have happened to you since I vaguely knew you when you were 5
25. adorable things about your significant other (even 1 thing is too many!)
     

Everything else is up for grabs. 

This is advertising gold. It also managed to escape even my viral eye…

Created by Saatchi & Saatchi… I don’t think I need to say anything, just press play again!

Another advert which, despite my refusal to get involved in PC/Mac debates, did tickle a few ribs. Mostly because I do whole heartedly agree and that Vista does indeed suck!

But, by far my biggest ‘miss’ of 2008 was the infinitely brilliant satire Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. This totally passed my radar. Still questioning how that was possible!

It took me all of about hmmm… 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Neil Patrick Harris (best known as a child prodigy in Doogie Hauser) plays a not so horrible Dr Horrible with a PHD in Horribleness.

“The world is a mess,” he says. “And I just need to rule it.”

This made-for-the-internet musical sees Dr Horrible seeking to rule the world and win the girl of his dreams, with a freeze ray!!!

Joss Whedon created the 45 minute mini-musical along with brothers Zack and Jed and fiancée Maurissa Tancharoen. Seeking “something to do” during the writers’ strike, the quadruplet hit upon the fact that the WGA (Writers Guild of America) didn’t expressly prohibit writing content for the internet. Thus giving birth to Dr Horrible and his aspiring super-villain mission to join the Evil League of Evil. The story centres around Billy and his alter-ego Dr Horrible, his arch nemesis Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion best known as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in *sob sob* the much missed Firefly) and his mission to win the heart of Penny, a volunteer for the Caring Hands Homeless Shelter.

Find out more here: www.drhorrible.com watch it all and enjoy!

So that rounds up what I missed in 2008, what I will remember from what I missed in 2008.
[Part 1 here]

January is a necessary jump board for an anticipated February… It’s an ambiguous in-between month consisting mainly of vacuous time. It’s a time to endure marathon DVD watching; generally a self imposed challenge to avoid/appreciate a, b, c and d of the previous paragraph. And, a time to truly review 2008.

According to the blogosphere, by all accounts, I’m listless. It was intentional; I don’t see the value in hours wasted to assess my 2008 best & worst advertisements, books, films, business decisions and news stories. Or consider the top ideas, games, quotes, media blunders, business failures, paranormal un-normality. Nor present a top ten of albums, songs, celebs, sports people, TV shows, words, travel places, bogus rumours, tech embarrassments or science discoveries. I’ll cease for fear of becoming a list of lists!

Basically I love everything I remember and that what I forgot – well it probably wasn’t worth the space in brain matter anyway.

That said, to be in the blogosphere you can only but come across these said lists at year end. What is most intriguing about them, for me, is in these lists are the cool, funny, clever, intelligent or damn right surreal stuff I’ve missed.

My review, my ‘list’ is what I missed in 2008:

Starting with this little criminal gem! The Snohomish Smokescreen… [I don't condone criminal activity you’ll understand – but many, many points for ingenuity]

The story goes that a robber, disguised as a gardener, pepper sprayed an armoured truck driver with pesticide and scarpered with a sack jammed with $400,000 in cash. The police arrived within minutes only to discover the side walked crowed with dozens of men all donning the same attire. The perp made off with the loot whilst police were laboriously checking through all the unsuspecting decoys.

It turns out that the decoys had been led to the scene unwittingly by responding to a labour listing in Craigslist for construction workers. It had stated they should attend in, “yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask…  and, if possible, a blue shirt.”

The criminal, 28 year old Anthony Curcio, was eventually arrested a month later following a tip-off from a homeless man. He was just arriving back from a jaunt in Las Vegas!

Inventing a crime mob to cover your tracks – classic!

From the science arena I discovered there was the building of a new Ark.  In the biblical sense Noah built the Ark to save animal species from the great flood. In the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen the Svalbard company has created a similar purpose Ark for the flora and fauna of the planet. The vault can hold up to 4.5million samples and is viable containment, even without power, for thousands of years on account of the arctic climate. This does beg the question; will the climate stay arctic? Anyway far be it from me to question what by all accounts is a cool planet saving device which has my sci-fi tendencies on over drive for plots centred on the capture of this Ark…

Staying with biblical matters I also missed an announcement from the Vatican for the ‘Seven New Deadly Sins’. Back in March the Vatican, adamant on appearing in line with a modern world – splutter splutter! – announced the new ‘deadly sins’ one must avoid to seek enlightenment or such things.

In the list were “bioethical sins, morally dubious experiments that harm human embryos, drug abuse, polluting, social injustice, accumulating excessive wealth and creating poverty”. Of course in somewhat institutionalised religious fashion they are loose enough in meaning to be interpreted in a number of ways. They’ll no doubt give justification for a whole medley of new God Hates America protests! I’m waiting for the next Louis Theroux documentary on that one!

Continuing with Part 2… before the end of January